RUBBER CITY

The industrial history of Rubber City centers on the continuous conflict between the majority of Phrixians and the minority of Gefirs, reflected in the feud between the family of the Terions and the Gefir Meuns. The hero is the lawyer Phot Aiton who joins the Meuns, marrying the daughter of Kimon Meun and fighting the Terion firm over tire patents and winning. The Meun company battles the Terions in mayoral politics, the development of rubber aeroships, and the development of solidago rubber out of goldenrods, then advanced polymer automobile bodies. The competing ethnic groups and companies continue fighting, with occasional compromises, into a new generation.